There is another thing you might try. Try renaming the file to xxxx.gif and
see if you can view it. If that does not work, try renaming it to xxxx.jpg
If that does not work, its back to paragraph 1 above. If Eudora is your
mailer, follow the procedures in pargraph 1.
You see when someone sends you mail from a newsgroup reader, even if the
gif/jpg is sent as attached, the emailer in the newsgroup combines the text
and the graphics into one binary file and sends across the net in the
language of the net. Unfortunately, emailers are not equipped with the
ability to distinguish text from gif/jpg code. Hence the problem. The
solution to it is in paragraph 1.
I sometimes can highlight the encoded text and save to a notepad file as
xxxx.gif. Then open VuePrint and view the file. But the success rate is 1
out of 10 tries.
And this is the final determinant. If your emailer translated the gif/jpg
codeing into text binary, you will never view the file. Its back to
paragraph 1.
Let me know if this is of any help
Regards
Guy Laurence
glk807@onramp.net
Serge Fontaine <fontai@ntic.qc.ca> wrote:
>HI! Someone has sent me a .gif picture in my e-mail and I want to put it
>in a directory.I use ( save as ) in Netscape and then it is written
>(inbox).Every time I try to open it with a picture viewer It says
>format unknown. What should I do?
